With the help of Alan Renouf’s vCheck (Daily Report) script I recently started noticing an error in my Windows event log on a vCenter server. This directory partition has not been backed up since at least the following number of days. Directory partition: DC=virtualcenter,DC=vmware,DC=int ‘Backup latency interval’ (days): 90 It…
VMware vSphere vCenter Server installs an Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) [aka Active Directory Lightweight Directory Service (ADLDS)] instance called VMwareVCMSDS. I have had several problems with this service — one issue with the contents of the directory (see vCenter Migration) and a couple with the actual ADAM/ADLDS instance. In…
From time to time I try to verify that all of my subnet boundaries are properly defined in AD Sites and Services. At some locations this is a little more challenging — especially when a site has many domain controllers. I recently threw together this PowerShell script to look at…
Last week I was working with snapshots in my lab. I came up with this one liner to create a bunch of snapshots on the same virtual machine: for ($i=1; $i -le 5; $i++) {get-vm “snaptest” |new-snapshot -name “snapshot00$i” -Description (get-date -format “‘Created: ‘yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm”) -memory:$true} As you can see…
I have a couple of lab type vSphere setups that use Openfiler virtual machines for shared storage. For several months these have been running with out of date VMware tools. Several weeks ago I was able to upgrade these tools and wanted to share the required steps. The first required…